There should be no cult of personality. We can absorb someone's intellectual output without lionizing the individual. The entire concept of celebrity is toxic and best left in the past.
That's quite an understatement! It used to be expected that a college professor would end up marrying one of his students.
the drawing displayed in the article is from 1975. i'm sure there are plenty of people on this very forum born well before 1975. we're not talking about judging someone from ancient mesopotamia here...
i think the dude was socially and politically average for his generation but his generation is still around (though petering out).
>This rewriting of history is sickening.
really? did you throw up after reading the article? this is hyperbolic and reactionary. what's happening here is a reexamination of things up until recently taken for granted (boys will be boys). i don't see anything wrong with revisiting things and reassessing. in this case especially because feynman's strip club antics are very often trotted out as some kind of wonderful thing he did that made him more relatable than other science luminaries.